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Call for Submissions

For seven years, Toby Johnson edited White Crane Journal.
In
2004, he handed the editing/publishing job over to Bo Young in Brooklyn
and Dan Vera in Washington DC.

Here's a "Call for Submissions" for White Crane which Toby issued
originally in 1997. It very succinctly describes the subtle workings of
the spirit in gay
men’s lives:

• how deep sexual feelings work
to inspire spiritual
longings

• how deep spiritual feelings enhance
sexual
experience

• how our lovers manifest, in the
flesh, "God's" love for us

• how the struggles of life as gay
men force virtue on us

• how the internecine hurt, pain and
rejection we
cause one another because we're members of an oppressed minority call
us to participate in the sufferings of "God," striving to cope with the
limitations and problems of individualized incarnation and multiplied
perspective

• how the beauty of young men shines
forth as the beauty of "God" and "God's" creation

• how the “enlightenment” that comes
with gay
sensibility results in feelings of personal frustration in dealing with
"the world," but, thereby, push us to participate in "saving the world"

• how gay experience redefines the
notion of "God"

• how the model of gay forebears
demonstrates wisdom
and hints at the meaning of life for fellow gay men

• how "God" receives waves of joy
each time a human
consciousness enters the altered state of sexual arousal and breaks
through into pleasure

• how sexual arousal and the ecstasy
of orgasm are
participation in "God's" joy

• how gay sensibility and
enlightenment contribute
to the development of a new spiritual awareness for humankind

• how YOU WOKE UP

Toby Johnson, PhDis
author of nine books: three non-fiction books that apply the wisdom of
his
teacher and "wise old man," Joseph Campbell to modern-day social and
religious problems, four gay genre novels that dramatize spiritual
issues at the heart of gay identity, and two books on gay men's
spiritualities and the mystical experience of homosexuality and editor
of a collection of "myths" of gay men's consciousness.

Johnson's book
GAY
SPIRITUALITY: The Role of Gay Identity in the Transformation of
Human Consciousness won a Lambda Literary Award in 2000.

His GAY
PERSPECTIVE: Things Our [Homo]sexuality Tells Us about the Nature
of God and the Universe was nominated for a Lammy in 2003. They
remain
in
print.

FINDING
YOUR OWN TRUE MYTH: What I Learned from Joseph Campbell: The Myth
of the Great Secret III tells the story of Johnson's learning the
real nature of religion and myth and discovering the spiritual
qualities of gay male consciousness.